Qualify

Definition: Qualify

Qualify

Verb

1. Prove capable or fit; meet requirements.

2. Pronounce fit; "She was qualified to run the marathon".

3. Make more specific; "qualify these remarks".

4. Make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job".

5. Specify as a condition; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life".

6. Describe the qualities or peculiarities of; "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover".

7. (grammar) add a modifier to a constituent.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "qualify" was first used: 1465. (references)

Note: Qualify \Qual"i*fy\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Qualified; Qualifying.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Qualify

Change

Verb: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.

Dueness

Demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for; revendicate, reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case.

Negation

Repudiate; set aside, ignore; rebut; (confute); qualify; refuse.

Qualification

Verb: qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper.

Teaching

Train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare, qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct; initiate; inure; (habituate).

Crosswords: Qualify

Other than the fact that you qualify as an open container? (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

I think we're sufficiently alienated for this to qualify as a pass. (The River Wild; writing credit: Denis O'Neill)

You know, this kind of behaviour could qualify as sexual harassment. (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France)

That would qualify, yes. (Andromeda; writing credit: John Cranna)

We qualify for the senior citizen age. (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg)

Rodney Fails to Qualify (1924)

The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify (1914)

Rodney Fails to Qualify (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Flying the weather : VFR : text of a manual on aviation meteorology designed to meet the needs of student pilots in Canada who wish to qualify for licensing by Transport Canada at the private pilot level (reference)

• How to Qualify for Iso (reference)

• How to Qualify for Social Security Disability: And Protect Your Rights (reference)

• How to Qualify for the Home Office Deduction (reference)

• No Credit Required: How to Buy a House When You Don't Qualify for a Mortgage (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Operating on training duty, with six SNJ "Texan" aircraft on deck lined up for takeoff, circa the later 1940s or early 1950s. The photo's original caption reads "The stage is set for the final scene of Basic Training: the flight students will qualify six carrier landings in SNJ 'Texans' and the curtain will descend on the graduation finale.". Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Social Security offers a disability program for people who qualify. (references)

People who qualify as close contacts of a person with meningitis caused by N. meningitidis should receive antibiotics to prevent them from getting the disease. (references)

To encourage the development of treatments for pediatric cancers, FDA expects to make written requests to sponsors of new drugs that may qualify a product for pediatric exclusivity under FDAMA. (references)

Business

The report is necessary to qualify for foreign-exchange privileges. (references)

Superior performance, quality and reliability qualify American products in Portugal. (references)

It has instructed banks to accept contract as collateral for software exporters to qualify them for Export Refinance Scheme. (references)

Children

Jordan

Students must obtain a good behavior certificate from the GID in order to qualify for admission under the university quota system. (references)

Czech Republic

Businesses in which 60 percent or more of the employees are disabled qualify for special tax breaks and the Government provides transportation subsidies to disabled citizens. (references)

Kiribati

The 40 percent of primary school graduates who pass a national examination qualify to attend 3 years of junior secondary school and 4 years of senior secondary school on a subsidy; a small fee is charged to other students who wish to matriculate at these levels. (references)

Civil Liberties

Portugal

Persons who qualify as refugees are entitled to residence permits. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

Since 1993 the country has offered "first asylum" to those who qualify. (references)

Nicaragua

However, several constitutional provisions potentially qualify freedom of the press. (references)

Economic History

Chile

Large investments may also qualify for certain concessions. (references)

Belgium

Belgium, as a developed country, does not qualify for OPIC programs. (references)

Botswana

Promoters are expected to contribute 25% to the project cost to qualify. (references)

Human Rights

Cuba

Activists believe that some of the dissidents are either state security officials or are persons attempting to qualify for refugee status to leave the country. (references)

China

According to local regulations in at least one province, women who do not qualify for a Family Planning Certificate that allows them to have a child must use an intrauterine device (IUD) or implant. (references)

Georgia

The Parliament responded with a law stating that judges' terms would not be renewed beyond the end of the year if they did not take and pass the examination, thereby observing the decision of the Constitutional Court, yet forcing the judges to qualify themselves through examination. (references)

Minorities

Sri Lanka

Approximately 75,000 of these persons do not qualify for either Indian or Sri Lankan citizenship and face discrimination, especially in the allocation of government funds for education. (references)

Political Economy

Latvia

In addition, 95 percent of those who applied for citizenship were able to qualify. (references)

EL SALVADOR

Coffee and sugar can qualify for this rebate if they are shipped as a processed product. (references)

Political Rights

Ethiopia

There are 23 nationality groups in 6 of the regional states that do not have a sufficient population to qualify for constituency seats; however, individuals from these nationality groups competed for 23 special seats in the 547-seat HPR in the 2000 elections. (references)

Trade

Australia

Therefore, business dealings with Australia do not qualify for coverage. (references)

Vietnam

Agriculture commodities qualify for GSM-102/103 credit guarantees in Vietnam. (references)

Women

Costa Rica

During the year, the Legislative Assembly considered a Bill to Qualify Violence Against Women as a Crime. (references)

South Africa

Elderly women, many of whom are primary caregivers for their grandchildren, benefit from legislation under which women qualify for the national old age pension at 60 years of age (men qualify at 65 years of age). (references)

Worker Rights

Belgium

The Labor Ministry implements health and safety legislation through a team of inspectors and determines whether workers qualify for disability and medical benefits. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "qualify": liable to qualify ♦ qualify a statement ♦ qualify as ♦ qualify as a doctor ♦ qualify for ♦ qualify for medicine ♦ qualify for the final ♦ qualify one's acceptance ♦ qualify oneself ♦ qualify oneself for a job. Additional references.

Ending with "qualify": pre-qualify.

Afrikaans

kwalifiseer, bepaal (affix, attach, command, confine, define, determine, fasten, fix, limit, make, make fast, order, restrict, secure, set, set conditions, stipulate, tell). (various references)

Albanian

zvogëloj (abate, belittle, curtail, decrease, diminish, lessen, make smaller, minimize, mitigate, rebate, reduce, relax, relieve, scale down, slacken, take away, take in, take up, understate), zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), përgatit (coach, compose, concoct, cook up, dispense, dress, fit, fit up, get, get ready, get up, make, make ready, make up, mix up, mobilize, prepare, produce, stage-manage, train), kualifikoj, jam kompetent, diplomohem, caktoj (allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, arrange, assign, award, call, constitute, designate, detail, fix, instal, install, instate, intend, lay on, make, mete, name, nominate, order, put, set, tell off, zone). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, benignity, civility, courtesy, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, quell, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, sweeten, temper, tone down, urbanity), ‏قيد (bind, bond, bridle, chain, check, confine, derestrict, enchain, entry, fetter, handcuff, hold back, impose restrictions on, item, limit, limitation, manacle, record, register, restrain, restrict, restriction, rope, set bounds to, set down, shackle, tie, tie up), ‏حصل على الشهادة العليا, ‏حصل على الدبلوم, ‏حدد (adjust, allocate, appoint, assess, assign, be specified, calibrate, center, centre, condition, constrict, define, determine, fix, itemize, limit, line, locate, mark, name, narrow, pin, pinpoint, prefix, prescribe, set, shoe, type), ‏تحفظ (closeness, have reservations, hedge, limiting condition, precaution, proviso, reservation, reserve, restraint, reticence, self restraint), ‏سكن (alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, cool, dwell, dwelling, dwelt, ease, fall, gentle, habitation, hostel, house, hut, kill, live, lodging, lull, occupy, pacify, palliate, place, quarters, quiet, quieten, remit, repose, residence, salve, set together, settle, solace, soothe, stay, still, supple, tenant), ‏عدل (adjust, alter, amend, arrange, blue pencil, commute, equal, equate, erect, evenness, fairness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, reason, recast, reclaim, rectify, redress, regulate, remodel, reshuffle, retrofit, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, shuffle, straighten, temper), ‏خفف العقوبة (commute), ‏خفف (alleviate, attemper, attenuate, deaden, ease off, extenuate, gloss over the facts, lessen, mitigate, modify, muffle, palliate, relax, relent, relieve, remit, slack, slake, slim, solace, subdue, succor, succour, thin, water down), ‏خول (authorise, authorize, enable, immoral, libidinous, vest), ‏إكتسب القوة أو الصلاحية, ‏أهل (domesticate, kin, populate, re educate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смекчавам (break down, chastise, correct, cushion, extenuate, humanize, lighten, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, quiet, retouch, season, smooth out, soften, subdue, tame, temper, turn, water down), разреждам (attenuate, dilute, rarefy, reduce, space, water down), квалифицирам се (graduate, habilitate), отговарям на изискванията, окачествявам (label, write down), ограничавам (bound, chasten, circumscribe, constrain, contract, focalize, hem, immure, intern, limit, localise, localize, narrow, peg down, pinch, reduce, repress, restrict, specialize, straiten, tie down, trammel), определям (allot, allow, assign, characterize, define, design, determine, fix, give, govern, identify, intend, lay, mark down, modify, name, nominate, pigeonhole, pitch, prescribe, set down, settle, spot, state), намалявам силата на, бивам приет за, правя уговорки, подготвям се (read up), изразявам по-леко, добивам ценз, добивам право. (various references)

Chinese 

給與資� � , 合� � (Eligibility, Eligible, Qualified, Qualifying, well-formed). (various references)

Czech

vymezit (circumscribe, define, delimit, demarcate), oprávnit (authorize, justify, warrant), modifikovat (modify), kvalifikovat (regard). (various references)

Danish

bevare adgangen til at gøre tjeneste til søs (to qualify for sea-going service). (various references)

Dutch

kwalificeren, bepalen (affix, attach, define, determine, fasten, fix, make fast, secure). (various references)

Esperanto

kvalifiki, kvalifi. (various references)

Faeroese

gera skikkaðan, gera føran. (various references)

Farsi 

منظم کردن (Array, Order, Rank, Regularize, Tidy), محدودکردن (Bound, Compass, Confine, Cramp, Curb, Dam, Gag, Impale, Limit, Narrow, Quantify, Restrict, Stint, Straiten, Terminate), کنترل کردن (Bridle, Control, Govern), قدرت راتوصیف کردن , تعیین کردن (Appoint, Assess, Assign, Bound, Determine, Fix, Locate, Prescribe, Slate, Specify, State, Telloff), ازبدی چیزی کاستن . (various references)

Finnish

määrätä (appoint, assign, determine, direct, fix, lay down, modify, order, prescribe, preseribe, provide). (various references)

French

qualifier. (various references)

German

qualifizieren (designate, label). (various references)

Greek 

καθιστώ αρμόδιο, έχω τα προσόντα, γίνομαι ικανόσ, γίνομαι αρμόδιοσ, μετριάζω (abate, allay, damp, extenuate, mitigate, moderate, palliate, remit, season, temper, tone down), προσδιορίζω (assign, define, designate, determine, specify), χαρακτηρίζω (characterise, characterize, describe, feature, typify), τροποποιώ (adfect, alter, amend, modify), δικαίουμαι (deserve). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שתלם (be paid, be proficient, be profitable, be worthwhile, become accomplished), ל�"כשיר (adapt, fit, groom, make fit, prepare, school), ל�"�'יע לרמ�", ל�"�'ביל (confine, constrict, cramp, limit, restrict, tie up), ל�"סמיך (associate, authorise, authorize, commission, empower). (various references)

Hungarian

módosít (amend, modify, modulate, to alter, to amend, to change, to qualify, to vary, vary), képesítést nyer, feljogosít (empower, entitle, franchise, licence, license, to authorise, to authorize, to empower, to entitle, to franchise, to qualify). (various references)

Indonesian

memenuhi syarat. (various references)

Italian

qualificarsi, qualificare (characterize, describe, introduce oneself), precisare (specify, tell precisely), modificare (adapt, alter, change, modify, revise, temper, vary), definire (define, determine, finalize, fix, settle, term), autorizzare (authorise, authorize, commission, empower, entitle, let, licence, license, sanction, warrant), abilitarsi, abilitare (habilitate, train, validate). (various references)

Korean 

자격을 주십시�". (various references)

Manx

kiartaghey (accommodate, accommodate arrange, adjust, adjusting, amend, correct, correct as mistake, correction, even out, fix, make, modification, modify, preparation, prepare, ready, rectification, redress, setting, settle, settling, true), jannoo cooie, cur coontey jeh (portray, report, sketch in), aarlaghey (dressing, get out, groom, prepare, train). (various references)

Norwegian

modifisere, kvalifisere. (various references)

Papiamen

kualifiká. (various references)

Pig Latin

alifyquay

Portuguese

qualificar (label, modify, mutate), tornar apto, restringir (abridge, astrict, bind, check, confine, contract, cork, cramp, curb, hedge, inhibit, limit, manacle, narrow, put a lid on, restrain, restrict, retrench, scant, skimp, specialize), modificar (change, infect, modify, mutate, reform, transform, translate, transmogrify, turn, vary), moderar (alloy, attemper, bridle, chasten, moderate, restrain), limitar (abridge, bind, border, bound, cabin, check, circumscribe, condition, confine, contain, cramp, define, dock, gaol, hedge, jail, narrow, number, put a lid on, restrict, retrench, scant, shorten, specialize, terminate, tie, verge), introduzir reservas em, habilitar (enable, habilitate, licence, license), atenuar (attenuate, blunt, dilute, diminish, lessen, mitigate, modify, mutate, reduce, relax, relieve, shade, slake, soften, soft-pedal, weaken). (various references)

Romanian

se califica (habilitate), reuşi (answer, be a success, bring home the bacon, contrive, do well, go on, hit, make one's mark, manage, pan out, pass, pay off, prevail, prosper, speed, strike, strike oil, succeed, win, work), modifica (alter, amend, change, modify, remodel, vary), califica (habilitate, label, Mark, proclaim, style, term). (various references)

Russian 

квалифицировать, готовиться (prepare), готовить (cook, make, prepare, ready), ограничивать (bound, circumscribe, confine, constrain, delimit, determine, enclose, hedge, inclose, limit, narrow, pinch, restrain, restrict, scanting, scrimp, set a limit, set bounds, specialize, stint, straiten, terminate), обучать (discipline, educate, ground, instruct, profess, school, teach), определять (appoint, assign, define, designate, destine, determine, fix, identify to, mete, modify, pinpoint, rate, sniff out, specifies, specify). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

usloviti (cause, condition), kvalifikovati, karakterisati. (various references)

Spanish

capacitar (capacitate, groom, train). (various references)

Swedish

kvalificera (fit, quality). (various references)

Turkish

nitelendirmek (characterize), finale çıkmak, hafifletmek (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, commute, deaden, de-escalate, ease, emasculate, extenuate, facilitate, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modify, palliate, relieve, remit, soft pedal, subdue, water, weaken), hakkını vermek (do justice to, recompense, remunerate), kısıtlamak (bound, circumscribe, clip one's wings, constrict, cramp, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hem in, inhibit, limit, restrain, restrict, stint, tie down), kısmak (abridge, attenuate, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, depress, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare, pare down, pinch, put down, reduce, retrench, scrimp, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), şart koymak (lay down as a condition, postulate, stipulate), nitelemek (modify), yetki vermek (accredit, authorise, authorize, capacitate, chair, create, empower, enable, entitle, intitle, invest, licence, license, vest, vest with, warrant), sınırlamak (bound, call off, circumscribe, confine, constrain, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hem in, hold in, imprison, limit, line off, localize, restrain, restrict, straitjacket, terminate, tie), seçmelerde kazanmak, su katmak (add water, reconstitute, water, water down), tanımlamak (be descriptive of, characterize, define, describe, designate, diagnose, illustrate, portray), yeterli hale getirmek, yeterlik kazanmak, karakterize etmek (characterize, feature, hallmark, personate, personify, signalize). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити правомочним (capacitate), навчати (breed, discipline, nurture, re educate, teach, tutor), здобувати певну кваліфікацію. (various references)

Welsh

ansoddi. (various references)

qualis. (various references)

qualificare. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "qualify": qualifying. (additional references)

Words ending with "qualify": disqualify, prequalify, requalify. (additional references)

Words containing "qualify": disqualifying, prequalifying, requalifying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Qualify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calify, qawaali, quaif, qualf, qualfy, qualif, qualifyd, qualifys, Quallofil, Quwatli, uglify. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: quail.

-3 letters: alif, fail, fila, flay, quai, quay.

-4 letters: ail, fay, fil, flu, fly, lay, qua.

-5 letters: ai, al, ay, fa, if, la, li, ya.

+2 letters: requalify.

+3 letters: disqualify, prequalify, qualifying.

+4 letters: qualifiedly.

+5 letters: requalifying.